Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.